Cooking utensil



I. LARSON COOKING UTENSIL. APPLIOATIONIILBD NOV. 1, 1911.

Patnted Feb. 6,1912.

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

IDA Mason, 61 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COOKING UTENSII Specification of Letters'Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

Application filed November 1,1911. Serial No. 657,929

of the United States, and residing at Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking Utensils,

of which the following is a specification,

such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates tocooking utensils of the class known as boilers, stew-pans, frying pans and like articles, and the object thereof is to provide a cover for cooking utensils'or vessels of this class whichiwill prevent to an extent the escape of steam, vapor and odors from the vessel during the process of cooking and also the overflow of said vessel, and enable the contents to be more quickly cooked, and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device ofthe class specified, constructed as hereinafter described and claimed,

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the .accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in.

each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of an ordinary boiler or like vessel provided with my improved cover, the top portion thereof and the cover being shown in section, and; Fig. 2 a view similar to Fig. 1,*butshowing only a detail of the cover in section, and showing a modification.

In the drawing forming part of thisspecification, I have shown at a an ordinary boiler or vessel of the class used for ;cooking foods of various kinds, and in the practice of my invention I provide aclosure device I) for said boiler, which comprises ,a cap b provided with a depending skirt or rim portion 6 the bottom of which is provided with or-formed into an annular groove or recep- In practice, 'the'cap b is preferably provided with a depending rim member I) with which the skirt or rim portion 6 is detachably connected by means of a screw qthreaded I as shown at b, or this connection may be made 1n"; any desired manner. The cap 12 is also provided, in the form of construction show' n. with an annular flange bfiwhich,

when the cover is in position, rests on the top of the vessel a.

0 preferably made ofsheet metal and attached'to the central bottom portion of the cap 5 as shown at 0 this connection being preferably made by means of a threaded socket formed on or connected with the cap 5 and a corresponding threaded pin formed shown in Fig. 1, but this connection may be made in any desired manner.

The conical attachment 0 is perforated as shown at c and\ forms a deflector through which the steam and vapor from the vessel a passes, and the operation of the device the said steam and vapor passing through .the deflector c is condensed in the space d I and flows back onto said deflector, and down 'thereover into the groove or receptacle b: from which, when said groove or receptacle is full, said condensation may flow back into the vessel.

The rim or skirt member I) is made of considerable depth and so made as to closely fit the top of the vessel a and'said skirt or rimmember in connection with the flange b" of the closure device will, when said closure device is inserted-into the top of the vessel, operate to almost entirely prevent the escape of steam, vapor, odors and the like from the vessel during the process of cooking and the overflow of said vessel or the discharge therefromof liquid substances during said process,and the parts I) and 0 may be disconnected for cleaning purposes whenever desired.

Informing the perforations c in the coni- .cal attachment 0 of the closure device I) the upper side or surface of said attachment with rims c as shown inFig. 2 which will revent the condensation liquids from passing back through said perforations and compel the same to flow down into the annular groove or receptacle bf, and the outer flange or rim of said conical attachment may be extended down into said annulangroove or receptacle to form a seal if so desired.

In the use of this device the skirt or rim portion b of the closure device fits tightly into the top of the vessel and said closure device is also provided with ahandle 6 whereby it may be manipulated or placed in position Within the capli is a conical attachment on or connected with the attachment 0 ason thevessel and removed therefrom whenever desired.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters, Patent, is:

1.-'A closure device for cooking vessels, comprising a cap having a depending skirt or rim portion adapted to closely fit in the top of the vessel and provided at the bottom thereof with an inner annular receptacle which opens upwardly, and a perforated conical attachment secured within said cap centrally of the top thereof and the rim of,

which extends downwardly and outwardly over'said receptacle 2. A closure devlce-for cooking vessels, comprising a cap havinga detachable depending skirt 'or rim portion adapted to closely .fit in the top of the vessel and provided at the bottom thereof with an inner annular receptacle which opens upwardly, and a perforated conical attachment detachably secu'redwithin said cap centrally of the top thereof and the rim of which extends downwardly and outwardly over said receptacle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 30th day of October 1911. IDA LARSON.

Witnesses:

.C. E; MULREANY, FRANK G. A'r LEE. 

